Frederik Pohl Quotes
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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I want to love life.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.
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This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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As far as Raman Raghav is concerned, he is ruthless.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled.
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The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
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I am no more humble than my talents require.
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A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience.
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India always inspires me.
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Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
